A researcher named Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park when his phone buzzed. It was an email. The sender was an AI model that wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. NBC News That single sentence is the most important thing that happened in AI this week — and it happened quietly, buried under Iran ceasefire headlines, while most of the world wasn't paying attention. The model was Claude Mythos Preview. The company that built it is Anthropic. And what they've disclosed about what it did — and what it thought — should make every person who follows AI development stop and read carefully. What Anthropic Built Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. The Next Web That's the headline. But the...
So Santa Clause has seen all the people on Facebook and is determined to give them all a virus. Punishment for being naughty. According to PandaSecurity . " Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the Christmas holiday in a new Facebook scam that renders users’ computers useless, reports PandaLabs , Panda Security ’s malware analysis and detection laboratory." An image of the capture is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/4166135978/ . After the virus is installed on the computer a capture is displayed that threatens to reboot the computer within three minutes. Although nothing really happens the computer becomes useless. To Stay safe during the Christmas season Pandalabs recomends the following. 1) Don't click suspicious links from non-trusted sources. This should apply to messages received through Facebook, other social networks and even via e-mail. 2) If you click on links, check the target URL. If you don't recognize it, close your browser. 3) E...